IR Server Suite and Hauppauge IR

[ykamchi]

Hi,

Does this plug in for MP supports the Hauppauge IR Blaster. If it is, can you explain how to configure it to change channels on the settop box when MP change channel?



Thx,
Yohay

[and-81]

At the moment it does not support the Hauppauge IR Blaster. I hope to have this feature added soon.

I don't have any Hauppauge devices so I can't test it myself, which is slowing me down, but I still hope to have experimental support added within a week or two.

Thanks,

[howudodat]

I'm curious if you have any update on the hauppauge remote. I have one with a HVR-1600 and use MP 0.2.3 and wanted to test the new MPII but cant use MPII at all. Also thought I'd ask what would be entailed for another programmer to look at it? I've been coding for 20+ years now and might be able to take a crack at it.

Peter

[and-81]

I've got all the code I need, as far as I can tell.

It's just a matter of getting the time to do it.

I've moved it to the top of my To Do list, so I expect I'll have it done soon. I'll post something here for you to try out and let me know if it works...

I should have some time in the next few days to have a look at it...

Cheers,

EDIT:

I should have mentioned ... Yes, it is possible for other developers to jump in and add support for other devices to the IR Server Suite. I'll post some more details about this later. But if you look in the Program Files\IR Server Suite\IR Server Plugins\ folder you'll see a file "IRServerPluginInterface.dll" this contains the framework for making a plugin. there's an accompanying xml file which outlines the interface. But I'll need to provide some example code and a bit of a "how to" at a later date ... I'll have to get back to you on that ...

[and-81]

Ok,

I can tell you that I have experimental Hauppauge remote support in the next version of IR Server Suite finished.

What I'd like to do is get a few Hauppauge owners to test it out for me while I try to finish off some of the other features/bug-fixes for 1.0.4.2. So if you have a Hauppauge device watch this thread... I'll upload a 1.0.4.2 pre-release here within a couple of days.

Cheers,

[and-81]

OK,

As promised, here is a preview version of 1.0.4.2.

It has a new receiver plugin "HCW Receiver" that should work with Hauppauge receivers. But I can't test it.

So if you have a Hauppauge device, give it a go and let me know if it works.

As soon as I've sorted out a couple of other little details I'll be releasing 1.0.4.2 proper, so get back to me quick if you have any trouble.

EDIT: See the 1.0.4.1 thread for a new 1.0.4.2 preview.

Cheers,

[xavier]

Originally Posted by and-81

if you look in the Program Files\IR Server Suite\IR Server Plugins\ folder you'll see a file "IRServerPluginInterface.dll" this contains the framework for making a plugin. there's an accompanying xml file which outlines the interface. But I'll need to provide some example code and a bit of a "how to" at a later date ...

Hi,

currently, I manage almost all MP functions with many not-MCE remote (the originals of various televisions in my house, Philips and JVC of course), except the... resume from standby for which owe always to have a MCE remote available.

Could this example help to write in the future a plugin that managed the resume S3 from *every* remote control?

King regards,
xavier.

[howudodat]

I'm sorry to be a pain about this. here's what I have done:
1. installed all tools and installed to c:\program...\Media Portal
2. installed all tools again and installed to c:\program...\Media Portal 2
Checked HCW, it can only receive not transmit? not an issue now but might be in the future
(I have both MP with TV3 installed and MP2 as a test)

Tried both MP and MP2 and no response to the IR. Tried both with IR32 (hauppauge tool) running and not running.

Anything you would like me to try or logs to post?
Peter

[and-81]

xavier:
The MCE Remote receiver can only cause a wake-up when it sees that one PC Power button that is on the MCE remote. The reason I can't just set it to any button is because the device is handling that itself, I don't do it in code.

I guess if there was a way to give the device an IR time-code to look out for then I could customize the wake-up buton, but I haven't seen anything like that in my travels... I'll do some googling and see what I can find.

I don't hold much hope, but if I find something I'll let you know.

howudodat:

ok, it can only receive because I haven't written the code to make it a generic blaster. At the moment Hauppauge users will need to use one of the exe blaster programs that are available to get the device to blast IR commands. For STB channel changing this is easy, but it wont do general equipment control. I've seen that some guys working on the LIRC project have aparently made it work as a generic IR blaster, but the code is pretty complicated and I don't have a device to test with so I dare say it would be pretty bloody difficult for me to get that side of it going

If you could post your log files that might help, but here are the steps you should take first:
1. Launch Input Service Configuration.
2. Select the HCW Receiver and make sure that it's checkbox is checked.
3. Open up Translator and try to create some new button mappings.

If you can get Translator to see the remote button presses then it works, and you'll just need to configure translator to turn those button presses into keyboard button presses. This is for MediaPortal 2.

For MediaPortal 1 you can configure the MP Control Plugin.

If it doesn't work then I'd like to see both the Translator log file and the Input Service log file.

Thanks,

[howudodat]

where are the logs at? Still not working. BTW, I did run a quick test with the IR.exe that comes with hauppauge and it is working (making sure there wasn't a hardware issue)

Peter